Example sentences of "[adj] time [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 3 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 4 | And now this time we would like to do a vehicle check with you when we before we go out . |
| 5 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 6 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 7 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 8 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 9 | I would not calculate this time , this time I would try to select my route in a random way . |
| 10 | This time I would have to lie down . |
| 11 | At this time I would like to thank all companies who have taken advertising space in the Reference Book for their valuable contribution to the publication . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm on my way home from Oxford , and thought this time I 'd come through London and look you up . ’ |
| 13 | This time I 'd make it right . |
| 14 | This time you would scarcely know it is on ! |
| 15 | This time you would scarcely know it is on ! |
| 16 | Right this time you 'd save forty P . |
| 17 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 18 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 19 | This time it would suit us fine to stay behind the pace — and jump to the front as late as possible . ’ |
| 20 | This time it would be even harder to put him off . |
| 21 | This time it would be at the rate of your pension . |
| 22 | But this time it would be different , this time she was not going to obey any silly rules . |
| 23 | This time it would be to stop herself from freezing , or starving , to death . |
| 24 | This time it would be different . |
| 25 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 26 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 27 | All his life , the fool thinks that if only he tried another woman , or holiday , or whatever , then this time he would really catch the mysterious something . |
| 28 | This time he would have to be more subtle . |
| 29 | This time he would do it himself , without Margaret , without any of her pet goons who could be guaranteed to get it wrong — to maim when they were meant to frighten , to kill when they were meant to maim . |
| 30 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |